Robert Cumming
decade
1940s
1943
Robert Cumming is born in Worcester, Massachusetts.
decade
1960s
1961
Robert Cumming and William Wegman attend Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, and become close friends.
1965
Robert Cumming earns his BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.
1965
Robert Cumming and William Wegman drive from Boston to Illinois in Cumming’s 1965 VW bus to attend graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
1967
Robert Cumming earns his MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
1967
Robert Cumming begins teaching at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
1968
Photo: The Art Institute of Chicago/Art Resource, NY
late 1960s–70s 1969
Robert Cumming and William Wegman collaborate on two-person shows.
decade
1970s
1970s 1970
Barbara Kasten participates in exhibitions with her friends Robert Cumming and Douglas Huebler.
1970
Robert Cumming moves to California to teach at California State University, Fullerton.
1971
Allen Ruppersberg proposes Al’s Grand Hotel for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s exhibition 24 Young Los Angeles Artists, which also includes Vija Celmins, Robert Cumming, and William Wegman.
1971
Vija Celmins, Robert Cumming, Allen Ruppersberg, and William Wegman participate in 24 Young Los Angeles Artists at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
1972
Robert Cumming and Roy De Forest participate in the Nut Art exhibition at the University Art Gallery of California State University, Hayward.
decade
1980s
1980
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago